Bitcoin price: Expert warns cryptocurrency will become a 'FOOTNOTE to the tulip bubble'
BITCOIN's skyrocketing prices have been compared to tulip mania that took over Europe during the 17th century – but "real Wolf of Wall Street" Jordan Belfort is claiming the cryptocurrency will ultimately lose its attractiveness.
The comparison to the 17th-century tulip craze in the Netherlands has followed bitcoin since its infancy.
Tulip mania is another way to describe a speculative bubble where the natural worth of something is sent upwards by irrational demand.
The tulip craze saw the price of a tulip bulb - thought to produce unique and valuable flowers - move from being valued at the same as a country estate to dropping down to less than the price on an onion.
Mr Belfort, nicknamed the Wolf of Wall Street, has dismissed comparisons between bitcoin and tulip mania.
e said: “The chances, in my mind, of bitcoin becoming anything more than the greatest footnote to the tulip bubble are zero.”
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